Supermarket clerk stabbed at check-out counter

SANTA MONICA, Calif. 
Police are searching for the estranged husband of a Santa Monica supermarket clerk who was stabbed and critically hurt at an Albertson's check-out counter.

Sgt. Richard Lewis tells City News Service that the attacker went into the Wilshire Boulevard market just after 3 p.m. Sunday and began beating and stabbing the clerk. The attacker then ran from the store and drove away.

When officers arrived, they found the woman conscious with stab wounds to the head and torso. She's hospitalized in critical condition.

Investigators say 52-year-old Kelvin Green, the woman's estranged husband, is being sought as a person of interest. Green hasn't been identified as a suspect.